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Engaging Science in the Life of Your Congregation

Engaging Science in the Life of Your Congregation

With so many issues to discuss, Christians can easily get the feeling that science is always attacking the faith. It is essential to balance such conversations with positive responses to God’s creation. After all, the primary response to the natural world in the Bible is to praise the God who made it.
May 14, 2013 
Deborah Haarsma 
Education, Worship & Arts
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Why Do More Homeschoolers Want Evolution in Their Textbooks?

Why Do More Homeschoolers Want Evolution in Their Textbooks?

"Many homeschool parents contact me or show up at my office and quietly say, 'Is there anything besides Young Earth Creationists?'"
May 13, 2013 
 
Education
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<strong>Series:</strong> Excerpts from “Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution”

Series: Excerpts from “Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution”

We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually comprise a book, provisionally titled, “Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution.”
May 07, 2013 
Thomas Jay Oord, Dorothy Boorse 
Lives of Faith, Biblical Authority
Evangelical Homeschoolers Ask for Accurate Science

Evangelical Homeschoolers Ask for Accurate Science

… whatever their reason for homeschooling, evangelical families who embrace modern science are becoming more vocal about it—and are facing the inevitable criticism that comes with that choice.
Mar 19, 2013 
 
Education
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The Lesson of Grace in Teaching

The Lesson of Grace in Teaching

I want to talk about my biggest life lesson, that is deep and profound, and continually reshapes the way I approach my students: Your accomplishments are not what make you a worthy human being. And you learn this when someone shows you grace, good things you didn't earn or deserve but you're getting them anyway. Because grace gives people dignity they don't have to earn.
Mar 05, 2013 
Francis Su 
Education
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Searching for Motivated Belief: Introducing John Polkinghorne

Searching for Motivated Belief: Introducing John Polkinghorne

Several times in my series of columns about “Science and the Bible,” I briefly discussed a few ideas from John Polkinghorne, one of the leading Christian thinkers of our time. Although I presented him mainly as a representative of the “Theistic Evolution” (TE) view, much of his published work is about other topics, several of them largely or entirely unrelated to TE. It’s time we got better acquainted with him.
Feb 28, 2013 
Ted Davis 
Lives of Faith, Astronomy & Physics
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<strong>Series:</strong> A Faith Journey in a Medical Science Career

Series: A Faith Journey in a Medical Science Career

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Feb 19, 2013 
John Pohl 
Lives of Faith, Young Earth Creationism
Evolution and Christian Faith Grantees Announced

Evolution and Christian Faith Grantees Announced

Congratulations to the 37 winners of the Evolution & Christian Faith (ECF) grants competition! ECF is a new BioLogos program designed to support projects and network-building among scholars, church leaders, and parachurch organizations.
Feb 13, 2013 
Kathryn Applegate 
Science & Worldviews, Biblical Interpretation, Creation & Origins, Education, Evolution - Evidence, BioLogos
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A Tale of Two Worldviews: Being a Biology Teacher in a Christian School

A Tale of Two Worldviews: Being a Biology Teacher in a Christian School

The first challenge for me at the beginning of each school year is to clarify the students’ understanding of evolution as it has been taught in their Bible and pre-requisite science courses. Invariably, they come back with the same answer: “Evolution is a lie,” to which I respond with, “Which aspects of evolution are you talking about?”
Feb 04, 2013 
Eric Kretschmer 
Education
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Dissonance and Harmony

Dissonance and Harmony

People hold clearly discordant points of view, and it would be dishonest to ignore the conflict. Yet some voices emphasize the dissonance without any note of harmony to put it in context. Too often, science and faith becomes a hostile battle of worldviews, sounding angry, dissonant chords even among fellow Christians. But civil, gracious dialogue is possible.
Jan 30, 2013 
Deborah Haarsma 
Christianity & Science - Then and Now, Lives of Faith, BioLogos
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Raising Children to Pursue Truth

Raising Children to Pursue Truth

In this video Conversation, Joel Hunter articulates the importance of raising a child that can garner knowledge from a variety of sources and to be able to study science with integrity—that is, to be able to pursue the truth to where it leads.
Jan 25, 2013 
Joel Hunter 
Education
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Worshiping, Growing, and Learning

Worshiping, Growing, and Learning

Yesterday, biology professors Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner raised the concern that workshops focused on evolution-related training do not reach not reach creationism-based biology teachers. Today, we'd like to focus on BioLogos' efforts to address that divide through our Biology by the Sea workshops.
Jan 23, 2013 
 
Education, Young Earth Creationism
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Evolution and Creationism in America’s Biology Classrooms

Evolution and Creationism in America’s Biology Classrooms

High school biology courses have a strong and lingering impact on students’ views of evolution and creationism.
Jan 22, 2013 
Randy Moore, Cotner, Sehoya 
Education, Young Earth Creationism
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Science and the Bible: Assessing the Evangelical Encounter with Evolution

Science and the Bible: Assessing the Evangelical Encounter with Evolution

Having now completed our study of the five main views about “Science and the Bible” held by conservative Protestants, I conclude with a final column, assessing the whole situation as I see it today.
Jan 17, 2013 
Ted Davis 
Christianity & Science - Then and Now, ID Movement, Young Earth Creationism
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<strong>Series:</strong> Science and the Bible: Intelligent Design

Series: Science and the Bible: Intelligent Design

In this series, Ted Davis identifies the history, core tenets and assumptions about the Intelligent Design view.
Dec 18, 2012 
Ted Davis 
Design, Science & Worldviews, ID Movement
<strong>Series:</strong> Surprised by Jack: C.S. Lewis on Mere Christianity, the Bible, and Evolutionary Science

Series: Surprised by Jack: C.S. Lewis on Mere Christianity, the Bible, and Evolutionary Science

In this five-part series, David Williams responds to the book The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society by John West and the Discovery Institute, showing that C.S. Lewis was a very complicated thinker whose views are hard to line up exactly with any camp in the current debates over the compatibility of Christian faith and evolutionary science.
Dec 13, 2012 
David Williams 
Biblical Interpretation, Adam, the Fall, and Sin, Creation & Origins, ID Movement
Surveying George Murphy's Theology of the Cross

Surveying George Murphy's Theology of the Cross

If God himself is willing to die, particularly in such a gruesome way, then perhaps we should at least consider the possibility of God allowing the death of other creatures, too. But would this really be compatible with what we know of God through Scripture?
Dec 04, 2012 
Thomas Burnett 
Christ & New Creation, ID Movement, Young Earth Creationism, Fossils
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<strong>Series:</strong> Confronting Our Fears

Series: Confronting Our Fears

In this series, U.S. Navy Commander Mike Beidler shares his own personal journey from accepting young-earth creationism to embracing evolutionary creationism.
Nov 30, 2012 
Mike Beidler 
Lives of Faith, Young Earth Creationism, BioLogos
<strong>Series:</strong> Behe, Lenski and the “Edge” of Evolution

Series: Behe, Lenski and the “Edge” of Evolution

In this series, we reexamine the claim made by Intelligent Design proponent Michael Behe to have found a limit to “Darwinian” evolution in light of recent results from the laboratory of Richard Lenski.
Nov 29, 2012 
Dennis Venema 
Genetics, ID Movement, Evolution - How It Works
Growing in Faith

Growing in Faith

As he endeavored to learn more, David was intrigued by Francis Collins book The Language of God because Francis did not present evolution as a rival theory to Christian faith, but as something that described God's method of creation.
Oct 12, 2012 
David Buller 
Lives of Faith, Young Earth Creationism, BioLogos
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